"BEIRUT: Internet speed in Lebanon is expected to become 20 times faster in two months once the country gets linked to a cable stretching from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, a statement by the Telecommunication Ministry said on Wednesday. Telecom Minister Jebran Bassil signed a preliminary agreement in Barcelona with Kuwait-based Mada Communication company and Saudi STC company. The agreement stipulates that the companies will install the internet cable to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Bassil hopes that the project will be accomplished in two months, stressing that the Lebanese government will not spend any money from its pocket on this cable. The statement said that the rates offered in Lebanon will be very competitive. Lebanon introduced three years the fast internet system DSL three years ago. But critics say that the DSL connection is sill far lower then other internet in the region. - The Daily Star"

On the sidelines of the World Conference of the cellular phone in Barcelona, Lebanon has been able to obtain additional path linking to the Internet via a cable meet in Saudi Arabia, and this will give him the speed and quality of service provided by Internet users in Lebanon.
According to a statement issued yesterday by the Ministry of Communications, has reached the Minister of Communications Gebran Basil, the company «over» Telecom, Saudi Telecom STC, last Tuesday, a tentative agreement to link Lebanon to the global Internet communications company networks across the Syrian branch of the company over in Jordan, leading to a convergence of cable in Saudi Arabia. Station provides 70 percent of the needs of neighboring countries to Saudip, multiple paths and a global cable linking east of the western hemisphere, thus helping to provide the best services for businessmen and the media, universities and other Internet users in Lebanon and neighboring countries.
This provides the understanding, which was attended by the Director-General of the establishment of processing and the Lebanese Ministry of Communications Andrew Nagy and a group of the Ministry of Telecommunications, Lebanon's multi-tracks of high quality and double the speed of 20 times, during a period not exceeding two months without any investment of the Lebanese state and the market at competitive prices.
This will ensure significant progress in Lebanon at the level of the telecommunications sector, particularly in the upgrading of Internet service in Lebanon to become the standard in the States of the Gulf and close to the global level, and this will increase opportunities in the national economy so that all sectors to develop social productivity and, after service has been limited stumbling block for capacity development.
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